When Bucks Hill Elementary School was labeled a "Focus School" in November due to exceptionally low standardized test scores among its African-American students, the school staff was predictably worried.

"There was definitely some panic, because I had never heard of a focus school," said Bucks Hill first- grade teacher Megan Drewry.

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